by Peter James | May 4, 2025 | Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius (1491-1556) was a professional soldier. (For the record, I live in metro DC, a city full of career soldiers!) When the French military invaded Spain in May 1521, Ignatius and his Spanish comrades fought valiantly to hold a strategic fort. In the ensuing...
by Peter James | May 3, 2025 | Count von Zinzendorf
When I began a ministry to college students at age twenty-two, I was unprepared for how mean-spirited and unkind church people could be. Yesterday, I told the story of Count Zinzendorf’s formative years and his resolve at nineteen “to live for him who died...
by Peter James | May 2, 2025 | Count von Zinzendorf
My kids loved Sesame Street. I did also! Jim Henson’s puppets were a source of endless entertainment in our home. One of my favorite puppets, Count Dracula, was called the Count because he loved to count things. It was a creative way to teach children how to...
by Peter James | May 1, 2025 | Stokely Sturgin
Stokely Sturgis was an eighteenth-century Delaware farmer and enslaver. One of the people he enslaved was named Richard (1760-1831). Three of Richard’s five siblings along with his mother had been previously sold to a plantation far away from him. Richard had a...
by Peter James | Apr 30, 2025 | Favorite, Suzanna Wesley
Suzanna and Samuel were married forty-six years. They didn’t have an easy time of it. They possessed strong personalities and definite opinions. Case in point: English politics. Suzanna supported King James II while Samuel preferred his successor, King William....
